Metal Gear Solid 5 on PS4 Will Take Up Less Space Than MGS 4 on PS3

The Phantom Pain is a massive open-world game, so it’s expected to require a lot of space. But surprisingly, it takes up less than most other open-world games–less, in fact, than Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots on PlayStation 3. MGS 4’s PS Store listing has it at 26.6 GB.

Although publisher Konami hasn’t addressed the file size yet, some possible reasons for the game’s small size are that all of its cutscenes are real-time, it doesn’t have much audio (Snake won’t talk much, after all), or it simply has really good compression.